Old news, Gramps. Some progressive advocacy group is making slurs against her. News flash! One who is not independently wealthy cannot work to support oneself and campaign full time. That is why the law allows a candidate to even pay oneself a salary. It’s a campaign dirty trick.

As a man of the people, I’d think that you would not want only the filty rich who married into wealth (Kerry-Heinz) or inherited it (Kennedy) to be able to run for office. If only rich people are enabled to run, we little guys are going to get screwed.

”… One who is not independently wealthy cannot work to support oneself and campaign full time. That is why the law allows a candidate to even pay oneself a salary.

Hey JD…

That’s why I referred to yer legal training and expertise, fer advice…!
Perhaps it’s not the actual use of her campaign funds for living expenses; but the fact that she didn’t declare them as income last year [2009]…?

”… Fifty-four percent of voters say they would be more likely to back a candidate who supported health care reform, according to the poll. That number includes 51 percent of independents and 79 percent of Democratic voters. Fifty-nine percent of Republican voters, however, say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who supported the legislation…
… There are at least three Democrats — Rep. Earl Pomeroy (ND), Rep. Steve Israel (NY), and Sen. Russ Feingold (WI) — actively touting their support of health care reform on the campaign trail, as the Wonk Room’s Igor Volsky notes.
In Feingold’s new ad, for example, there are regular people praising the senator for fighting insurance companies and telling his competitor, [multi-millionaire, married rich] Ronny Johnson, “hands off my healthcare.”

I have relatives who were missionaries in China for over twenty years. I imagine I could get some pretty good intelligence from them with the right questions. They left China the either the day before or the same day as the Tianjin Square massacre. But I’m sure they still correspond with some of their friends over there.

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